Prayer of the Undying

Before the Kypris starlight, Night Mother of gods and men
 O blessed goddess of stillness slumber moonlit
 I call to surrender Amaryllis before your children Mandrake
 Upon the Ash I've fallen to you as the Hanged man
 I come to you naked below an ark of bleeding doves
 Nine times crucified in the heart of dawn
 Three nails between life and death
 All the blood I make is equal to blood I take
 Entangled in the Silver Gate
 Resides the Serpent of the Grave
 Below my shallow I do reach
 To Sacrifice Attis on the Pine
 To receive Light in you
 You give all, you take all
 I sing of Thy Night...
 In heavens, upon Earth
 Hear my cries, hear my roars
 Rooted above a buried Sun
 Strip me of this poisonous flesh
 Strip me of this putrid soul
 Strip me from the light of my eye
 Drag me through the deep, drowned yet undying
 Never knowing saffron's curse, my great work is complete
 When the salted clouds have cleared and blood has raked the air
 The Mandrake will scream
 Crucify me between pure being
 Within a darkness is glowing under my skin
 In serpentine dance surmounting to all horizons
 A serpent above me, a serpent below me
 I coil among them in the fluid of Thy womb
 The essence of Fox Glove hallows through the blood of my heart against the current
 Could this be the heavens
 O great mother Kypris
 I've fallen from the Spring of Life
 No grace, no glory...
 Through fire I walk, through baptism of death
 Let me rise from Thy gift of pain and silence